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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 653
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 638
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist.
REP. MASTROFRANCESCO, 80th Dist.
REP. DAUPHINAIS, 44th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING UNSOLICITED PROVISION OF ABSENTEE
BALLOT APPLICATIONS, AUDITS OF SAME -DAY ELECTION
REGISTRATION AND ABSENTEE VOTING, FREE -OF-CHARGE
PHOTO IDENTIFICATION FOR VOTING PURPOSES, MANDATORY
MINIMUMS FOR ELECTION CRIMES AND SIGNATURE VERIFICATION
FOR ABSENTEE VOTING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 9 of the general statutes be amended to (1) prohibit the 1
unsolicited mailing, delivery or other provision of absentee ballot 2
applications; (2) require the audit of same-day election registrations and 3
subsequent confirmation notices of such registrations; (3) require 4
registrars of voters to verify that any elector who votes by absentee 5
ballot actually resides at the address associated with such elector's 6
absentee ballot application and absentee ballot; (4) (A) require photo 7
identification for voting in person or by absentee ballot, (B) afford 8
electors means of obtaining, free of charge, such photo identification for 9
purposes of so voting, and (C) afford electors means of obtaining from 10 Proposed Bill No. 653
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public libraries, free of charge, a photocopy of such photo identification 11
for purposes of so voting by absentee ballot, the costs of which are to be 12
reimbursable by the State Treasurer; (5) impose mandatory minimum 13
sentences for certain felony violations of election laws; and (6) require 14
the Secretary of the State to develop and implement a process for 15
verifying the signatures upon returned absentee ballots against the 16
signatures upon the corresponding absentee ballot applications. 17
Statement of Purpose:
To implement multiple revisions to the election laws relating to absentee
voting, same-day election registration, in-person voting and criminal
penalties.